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Tottenham fans react to Anthony Georgiou's performance against Roma

The Tottenham Hotspur youngster turned out for the second half against the Italian club.

Tottenham Hotspur could not maintain their winning start to pre-season, as a late flurry of goals saw them lose 3-2 to Roma in the United States in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Mauricio Pochettino's side were 2-0 down with just three minutes of normal-time remaining, but somehow they clawed their way back courtesy of strikes from Harry Winks and Vincent Janssen to seemingly take a share of the spoils.

However Roma had other ideas, with Marco Tumminello scoring what proved to be the winner just a minute after the Dutchman's equaliser.

While Tottenham were left disappointed by the result there were still positives to take from the match, not least the performance of 20-year-old Anthony Georgiou.

The player has featured 28 times for Tottenham's under-23 side to date, providing seven assists in the process, and the versatile youngster did not let his first-team opportunity go to waste.

A left-sided midfielder who can also operate at left-back if required, Georgiou has been making waves with Tottenham's second string for some time now and, along with Tashan Oaklay-Boothe, he is doing his best to force his way into Pochettino's first-team plans this summer.

After the match we took to Twitter to see what Spurs fans thought of Georgiou's 45-minute run-out and you can read a selection of what we found below:

Georgiou by far stand-out player of the night and he's only played the 2nd half, looked brilliant going forward & linking play. #COYS#THFC

Vincent Ralph

After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Vincent completed a NCTJ-accredited qualification in newspaper and magazine journalism in 2005. He has worked for HITC for four years and is now Head of Editorial and Journalist Standards.